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SOLIDARITY

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Protests in Turkey are going on while the type of gas used by the police is constantly changing. First it was burning eyes, make one puke; then the one that hurts the skin… The last but not least is affecting the ability to think properly. Bring it on Mr. President!
The violence of the police increase. [...]

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FAUX MARBLING

Sunday, May 12, 2013

What is it that makes marble and its pattern so omnipresent these days? Originally composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, today the motive of marble is not only used in contemporary art, but also in fashion and textile production. Commonly used for sculpture and as building material, it now seems to be trendy to envelop the [...]

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WINDSWEPT

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Yet another piece on the intricacies and beauty of wind: for Windswept, artist Charles Sowers installed 612 wind arrows on the outside of the Randall Museum in San Francisco… (thanks)

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WIND MAPS

Monday, November 5, 2012

Nature, of course, is amazing and violent and beautiful and many more things, as we all know. In the wake of hurricane Sandy ravaging the east coast of the US, see a live data visualisation by Fernanda Vegas and Martin Wattenberg of where the winds blow right now, and I could just stare at that [...]

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WOOD SOUNDS

Monday, October 1, 2012

In Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck cross-sections of wood have been shaped into wooden vinyl records and when played on a specialized record player each year ring’s individual topography is translated into sound, transforming the natural grooves of the ring into unique pieces of piano music.

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THE SUPER SOLAR COOK-OFF

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Solar Cook-Off is a cooking competition taking place as a part of Playpublik Urban Game Festival. Participants are invited to build a solar cooker, then show their talent with the scavenged food. In case the sun doesn’t feel like coming out, there is a Plan B, which is to built the Super Rocket Stove! If you are [...]

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THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR

Saturday, June 2, 2012

World Fairs… Places of industrialization, power, colonialism and futuristic ideas.
From 1st of June till the 24th, a world fair will take place, that differs from The Great Exhibition in legendary Crystal Palace: ‘The  World is Not Fair-The Great World’s Fair 2012′. By collaboration of Berlin based architecture office Raumlabor and  HAU, this critical world fair [...]

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ENDS OF THE EARTH

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Personally, I really love land art, so I wish I could go and see the apparently epic exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at LA’s MOCA museum. In the meantime, since the world of science is slacking a little as far as the advancement of physical bilocality is concerned, thank MOCA for [...]

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Glitch hunt

Monday, April 16, 2012

So what do you think of The New Aesthetic?

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Ready for Spring

Friday, March 23, 2012

We know most of us don’t own or rent a piece of land, don’t have gardens or spacious balconies and sometimes neither huge, tall windows (yes, we live in a big city), nevertheless let us tell you that you can still  get your hands dirty!
Terrariums and aeriums have never been as fashionable as they became recently. [...]

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